SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.98 (see score help below)

   1  MVFGDLNERPLKKRRFFVDEEDTHPPSSEAAPVTTNLDTSTISSAGPEGS    50
51 DVRQQQLNGAVPFPNVKESSRESPGLGPEDKQDNLLKEDEENNGTVDYEI 100
101 LNHSPSIHAQQDQRVDQGLTNGFGGQPSGERTVSETQAFQSSGGFDTSTF 150
151 ASIIGEHLSPESLEKIRKASGDDLERAVNIYFDGSWKSSNNSLSQPLVAP 200
201 HQQTLSNPCTPVNESISQTVNTKISKKPNQAPSSRCLSQSSRYIGAFGVG 250
251 AWATRSGVGLLKHGEHVNVERARSQPVSKRGRGGKLITNQKGDVLTRFTN 300
301 KSGQEIGRLPRETAEWVSTLIDQKICRFEGICVFAPDRVRVNDTIYLQLW 350
351 CYLRKEAFLPRNLWNMGDDNRSTAFFEEQESAEEKQLRLRQVALVKLFDE 400
401 IGLQPTTVNDMTKKHKKEGLLRAAEIAEQYDKTKREGKSNESSEDEESPE 450
451 LEEDQLDTLYKKAQSFDFNMPEAQPPPSFVLNLRKYQRQALHWMLAKEKD 500
501 KKSGRELSMHPLWEEYTWPTKDVDDKDLPAVEGQAHFYVNPYSGELSLDF 550
551 PAQEQHCLGGILADEMGLGKTIEMLSLIHSHRNVSPSRQGPSSSTELVRM 600
601 PSSSSAILPAPNTTLVVAPTSLLSQWESEAMKASEQGTMKVLMYYGVDKS 650
651 TNLQELCSAGNPAAPNIIITSYGVVLSESRQLAMFNSNTQGGLFSVDFFR 700
701 VILDEAHVIKNRRSKTARACYELRATHRWVLTGTPIVNRLEDLFSLVRFL 750
751 QVEPWNNFSFWKTFITVPFESKDYVRALNVVQTVLEPLVLRRTKTMKTPE 800
801 GEPLVPLPRRTIDIVEVELSEQEREIYDYIFTRAKRTFNDNIEAGTLLKS 850
851 FSTIFAQILRLRQTCCHPILTRNKTIVADEEDAAATADAANELKDDMDLQ 900
901 ELIDRFSASMENADTAEAQDPSAKFTTHALRQIQTESSGECPICSEEPMI 950
951 DPAVTACWHSACKKCLEDYIRHQTDKGVPPRCFSCRAPVTSRDIFQVIRH 1000
1001 QSPSSTPTETDLYSSTPASSPHPAPRISLRRIHPLSPSAHTSAKIHALIN 1050
1051 HLNRVPANTKSVVFSQFTSFLDLIGAQLTKAGISYVRLDGTMPQKARAEV 1100
1101 LAEFNRTETFHQEEIDEDEGPDTPRVRISSKNSRSSPKSPAVLLISLRAG 1150
1151 GVGLNLTAASNVFMMDPWWSFAIEAQAIDRVHRMGQLRDVSVTRFIVKDS 1200
1201 IEGRMLRVQERKMNIAGSLGLRVGGDGSEDEKRKERIEELKLLFE 1245

Positively and negatively influencing subsequences are coloured according to the following scale:

(non-nuclear) negative ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| positive (nuclear)

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If you find NucPred useful, please cite this paper:
NucPred - Predicting Nuclear Localization of Proteins. Brameier M, Krings A, Maccallum RM. Bioinformatics, 2007. PubMed id: 17332022
The authors also look forward to your comments and suggestions.

What does the NucPred score mean?

You have to decide on a NucPred score threshold. Sequences which score greater than or equal to this threshold are predicted to spend some time in the nucleus. Higher thresholds yield fewer predicted nuclear proteins, but these predictions are more accurate (you can have higher confidence in them). The table below gives more details of the performance of NucPred estimated using the sequences it was trained on (by cross-validation). Another benchmark is available in the Bioinformatics 2007 paper.

NucPred score threshold Specificity Sensitivity
see above fraction of proteins predicted to be nuclear that actually are nuclear fraction of true nuclear proteins that are predicted (coverage)
0.10 0.45 0.88
0.20 0.52 0.83
0.30 0.57 0.77
0.40 0.63 0.69
0.50 0.70 0.62
0.60 0.71 0.53
0.70 0.81 0.44
0.80 0.84 0.32
0.90 0.88 0.21
1.00 1.00 0.02

Sequences which score >= 0.8 with NucPred and which are predicted by PredictNLS to contain an NLS have been shown to be 93% correct with a coverage of 16%. (PredictNLS by itself is 87% correct with 26% coverage on the same data.)

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